from "Bruce Burdekin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Just been runnign Arachne out of W95, and notice how quiet the HDD was compared to running it out of DOS! I assume thisis because W95 has clever caching and better use of RAM, so the question is, is there any way of getting a similar effect using DOS? I know I can run parts of Arachne from a RAM disk, but this seems to me like fixing the symptom, rather than the fault, and it means that I have to run a RAM disk before Arachne, whereas if I can improve the memory usage and/or HDD caching, that will benefit all my DOS programs. Presently I only go into W95 for the benefits of the caching, and to occasionally open pictues that people keep emailing me in funny formats, like PDF.
With DR-DOS, you can use NWCACHE, and I think MS-DOS has something comparable. I remember creating the slogan, "Arachne gives the hard drive a hard drive". That was true in straight MS-DOS, DR-DOS, and in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM, with Arachne running much slower in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM (connecting with DOSPPPD) than in straight DOS. What version of DOS are you using?
